Suffering Quotes (755 Quotes)

This event is not about the training or road races leading up to marathon day, but about the drive to protect those we love from pain and suffering.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Given the tragic and devastating events along the Gulf Coast, members of the Senate would have great difficulty explaining why we were debating the estate tax during our first days back when we know hundreds of thousands of families are suffering,

The Iraqi leadership has to understand that this is an unconstructive road toward the worsening of the crisis and the worsening of the suffering of the Iraqi people,

Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

I think we must make every effort to reduce the pain and the suffering that exists, ... And I believe, in complete faith, that my plan is the only plan, with which, with the help of God, we can get to peace. This plan will lead to less casualties, less losses and less suffering.

But while it's possible to imagine tasteless jokes that ridicule human suffering, it's equally possible to imagine jokes that express outrage, assert a will to endure, or challenge dominant or majority thinking.

Both have caused suffering, and both have raised a lot of questions for people. I think it's natural to ask questions such as, why does this happen And even more profoundly, where was God when this happened

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

The government pumped an awful lot of liquidity into an industry that was already suffering. We should have just taken the hit then and gotten it over with.

Were the fortunate ones, ... Those poor people in New Orleans are the ones who are suffering.

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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Virtue tested Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart

Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world. In an era in which we confront a globally networked enemy, and at a time when nuclear weapons proliferation is an urgent threat, continuing on our present course is irresponsible at best.

The last two weeks, I was just suffering. I couldn't even watch it. I know it's ridiculous. I know it's only a game. But those last two weeks, I was sick.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

The clinical evidence is that she is dying. Her body is wasting away, she cannot process food and she is suffering,

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

If you dream for freedom, if you dream for love, if you dream for your future, that is not good because that causes pain and suffering.

While doing relief work in India I met Abdul. He was old, crippled and blind. He had been a college professor and spoke perfect English. His mind was sharp and clear, and he taught me much about India. Near the end of my stay I asked, 'Abdul, what could I pray for for you' A smile illuminated his face, and he sighed, 'Sister I dont know I have everything. I stood dumbfounded. This poor man, suffering terrible disfigurement, had everything Then in his beautific smile I saw his joy, his serenity, his sacred calm. And I knew what Jesus meant when he told us, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit.' For, wanting nothing, Abdul had that peace which passes all understanding.

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

We believe that nanotechnology will have a transformative effect on cancer diagnosis and treatment. In fact, its impact is already visible in the research being conducted through many of the centers we are announcing today. Through the applications of nanotechnology, we will increase the rate of progress towards eliminating the suffering and death due to cancer.

While one person alone may make little difference in comparison to the magnitude of this disaster, millions of individual acts of compassion, taking place all over the country, will go a long way to alleviate the suffering,

The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences.

Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible no one can grasp it or fight against it it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

In times of catastrophe, when destruction, suffering and death are so overwhelming that it breaks your heart and almost leaves you numb, it is comforting to find that an outpouring of generosity, kindness and help from our fellow man restores our faith and strengthens our souls,

What makes me so special You say you're blessed because you have perfect children, and what does that make me But more than anything, when you know God and you know His character and you know His role in pain and suffering, you have to face the thing.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

We must not forget but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

When we had to call on FEMA, he was there to help, ... There were a lot of people suffering. He helped us qualify them for low-interest loans. He seemed to be very responsive.

Suffering and doubt are cut out from within, and peace is obtained.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.

Hurricane Katrina may have silenced my hometown for now. But if we all work together through efforts like those at this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, we can restore New Orleans and the music scene that made it so great, and reduce the suffering of other victims of this disaster.